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2015 hohonu moana
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2015 Hohonu Moana
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Very large sponge, possibly Euretidae family, being sampled.
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Poliopogon sponge.
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Base of a large sponge.
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Periscope sponges.
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Appears to be a live sponge serving as a host for small alcyonaceancorals.
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Widely spaced linear arrangement of whip corals on a basalt substrate. Apurple feather star crinoid is perched atop the second whip coral as seenfrom right to left.
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Widely spaced linear arrangement of whip corals on a basalt substrate. Althoughthe white object in the center is a sponge, it is reminiscent of imaginativeMars rover alien sightings.
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Sampling a bamboo whip coral. Wonder if the purple crinoid remained on thesample or swam to freedom?
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Although moderately sparse life forms on this rock substrate, they arerelatively diverse with at least four coral species and poliopogon sponges inthe view. The dead base of what must have been a huge sponge is on the rightedge of the image.
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The smooth surface of a basalt flow is relatively heavily populated with sponges and corals. The cobble and boulder field in the center left of the image isdevoid of large fauna.
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A huge poliopogon sponge dominates a view of bamboo whip corals and smallgreenish yellow Acanthogorgia gorgonian corals.
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Branching bamboo corals and an Iridogorgia magnispiralis coral in the foreground. The area extending to the upper right appears to be covered with eithercoral debris or some sort of shell debris and is totally devoid of large fauna.
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A scene reminiscent of an Arizona cactus garden but, instead of saguaro cactus,numerous Walteria sp. sponges are seen and a diverse array of octocorals. Ayellow feather star crinoid is perched on a large Walteria sp. sponge in thecenter of the photo
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A large bamboo whip coral flanked by two large Walteria sp. sponges.
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A cutthroat eel swims by a recently broken Walteria sp. sponge. The sponge'supper third lies on its side in the lower right with a yellow feather starcrinoid still clinging to what was recently its highest point. A dead Walteriasp. sponge is to the
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A four tentacled jellyfish is seen in the distance. This jellyfish is probably similar to that seen in images expn5787 through expn5789.
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A cutthroat eel seemingly slithering along a rock bottom.
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A thin large-eyed eel passes by a blackish translucent holothurian.
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A black grenadier in a head-down position is barely visible against a black rock background.
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A somewhat mottled and scratched up cutthroat eel swims along the bottom.
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